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Entimation.

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY JANUARY 26 1969.)

Intimations.

NOTICE.

HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TAN HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SO CIETY will be bald at the CITY HALL, TO-MORROW, 17th inet, at is o'clock. Consul General Wilder has kindly consented to take the Chair,

Hongkong, 25th January, 1009.

NOTICE.

HE only Edition of the RACE BOOK THE only Adition Red by a Stewards of the Jockey Club are those printed

T. F. HOUGH,

THE SHENG MOU YOU.

"DV GRACE" HELEN DAILEY.

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at home or abroad that she is dimming those | and aspirations of her own country women. Is almond-shaped dark eyes.

the northern part of China many of these con- “Have you bean; to the French Convent ?" vorts, have given their lives in the massacran Turning to the left from the Bubbling Wellasks one feminine. tourist of another. I fear that wipe out entire missions when a horde of road, which is to Shanghai what Rotten Row that it is not the sex problem, the liberation or furious "yellow devils" sweep everything is to Londen, what the Champs Elysést is to the possible suffragetting of the yellow sister foreign into an ocean of blood. Viewed in her Paris, one enters on the Sicawei road. If it is that propels the question. It is the love of ordinary colo, the Chinese woman is a sphinx, summer time and afternoon, the traveller, finery, ancient the first female, new as the but it is only the babit of centuries that hides leaves behind him the haughty. Celestial to last-born, woman child. Delicate as a spider's the real human being under a stoicism that embroidered silks reclining among costly weby fobs as gossamer, ravishing to the gaze of conceals the heart beats that make the world cushions, with trim mafoos in showy uniforms the beholder is the lace that slips, yard by akin..To my mind, from my own personal occupying the box of a gay Victoria, while yard, from between the ivory fingers. From all observation, she is twice blest in the emotional hundreds of jinrikshas beb-aab with legions of parts of Europe come orders for certain designs nature that makes her superior to either the sedan chairs borne by steadily marching Boing fashioned, according to measurement, by Japanes or the Filipino woman. Galo her contipa. Stately English lamps give way to order of Worth, was a stamidis lace gown valued confidence, chain her loyalty, and she is faithful the peace of green fields, dotted with number at $4,500 in American gold, and I was told that to the death. less graves, to deserted gardens from which it took six months to finish such a garment. rise solitary pagodas, five miles along a sun, Lingeria with French embroidery is made by Clark of the Course,

baved road and he has reached the hamlot of sets. Cases with rolle of lace that can be pur Hoogkong, 19th January, 1909, [104

Sicavel and the beadquarters of the Kiangua chased by the yard or piece, at a minimum Mission with its ramifications of schools, col sum, await the fancy and the purse of the leges, observatories, asylums and orphanages. traveller. The proceeds all go to the convent, All here in this poverty-stricken "region, the workers receiving their share of a day's Oriental impenetrability, in some degree, toll. Few are paid over fifty cents, that being lowers its mask to gazo, eagerly into considered a munificent sum. the kind eyes of no Occidental char. 16ty that, uplifts the cross in the Dame of a common humanity. Hele men, women and children flock or are drawn in to secrty by the hand of mercy which succours the un. fortunate from a fate modreamed of by aur civilization,

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Hongkong, Sth January, 1909.

DON'T BUY

ELSEWHERE BEFORE YOU CALL AT FRENCH STORE

(Opposite ASTOR HOUSE).

NOW SHOWING

A Large and Fancy Assonment of The Best FRENCH TOYS, DOLLS,

TOM SMITH'S ORACKERS,

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Gorgeous satins and silke coming from the loumi in Canton and from various parts of the empire are heavily, embroidered, mostly in Oriental figures; The vestments worn in the Catholic church are often ordered from here and are truly magnificent, with tracery, of

Entimations.

".For

A BILLY SAYING," "It is a common but silly opinion prevailing among a certain class of people that the worse a remedy tastes, smells or hurts, the more efficacious it is." So says a well-known Eng lish physician. He further adds example, let us consider cod liver oil. As it luk extracted from the fish this oil is so offensive to the taste and smell, that almost everybody abhors it, and many cannot use it at all, no matter how badly they need it. Yet cod liver, oil is one of the most valuable drugs to the

world, and it in the greatest pity that we have not thus far been able to free it from those peculiarities which so seriously interfere with its usefulness." This was wailion years ago ;. the work of civilizing and redeeming it how. ever has since been triumphantly accom plished; and as a leading ingredient in the remedy called

By education, by breaking down the barrier of ages, by giving her liberty to choose, free- dom to act, by instilling in her the sense of personal dignity accorded Christian woman, hood the universe over, the sisters of the Con- vent of Sheog mou-you are doing a wonderful and upble work in elevating the heathen wo-

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION man, for abe is fast becoming not only a utility fn the commercial sphere, but u potential factor the oil retains all ́its wonderful curative pro- . for spiritual and educational enlightenmen!perties with no bad smell or taste whatever. It San Francisen Chronicle,

is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from 'fresh,cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrap of Hypophosphites and Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry; creating a medicine of unequaled - power for the diseases most prevalent and fatal among men, women and children. There is no other remedy to compare with it. It in creases the digestive power of the stomach and

Intimations,

florst patterus and various religious symbols CHINESE:

At Sheng-mou-you all agés receive care, from the old decrepit person to the infant; from the blushing maid to the matured, business-like, wife. Each epoch has 19 peculiar care and at- tention. There is a long squat building, where; the outcast babies are tended, and these forlorn" drifts of humanity are taken charge of by the

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BAZAAR Blood Impurities, Weakness, Loss of Flesh,

AT.

Exhibition of CHINESE PAINTINGS, EMBROIDERIES, OLD CHINA,

* STATUETTES,

PORCELAIN GOODS, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS,

&o., &o., 20.

Nanyang College gives the Chinese you h the Screens, fans, table cloths and covers are opportunity to pursue the classics and to ac-spread belare the visitor in brilliant array. All quire Western knowledge. Courses in Lalio, the colours of the prism are displayed from French, English, bistory, geography, mathema the most delicate shades to the deepest dyes. tice and the sciences are largely attended, to, They are sold to shops and to-private indivl prejudice baving fled before the general duals, who buy for many of our houses and big awakening of China. Besides the elementary shops at home. All these prismatic materials studies lessons are given in aichitecture, carve leave the work room with the fantastic design ing, carpentry and various trades. It is a or the more saber fancies of the Eastern world 78, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRÁL unique sight to see hundreds of apprentices threaded into their body by the Chinese women bending over sheir work, their naked backs learning the art of needlework under the good marked by the staputar which denotes the sisters' direction, converts, their bare breasts being the resting That the place for a small wooden censa, Chiocte hive a remarkable talent for coyping is proved by the excellent reproductions of pafatings by the old masters, while their draw ings and chiseled altar-pieces are a marvel to behold: Like the Japanese they are copyists and, working through a medium that is immo-blind, chi dless women. A great percentage of bile, they seek to give to the creation of others the population go-blind in the Oriental coun a minuteness of detail that conveys the sense

tries. Bus glare, trachoma aid exposure pro some of the causes. This portion of the com of swiftness, motion, life.

The French Jesuit fathers lead a life of self-munity becomes a burden and a useless denial. They adopt, as do the nuns, the Chinese mode of existence. They do not compel the acceptance of Ohristianity by students, but teach along general educational lines, leaving the adoption of faith to individualedrobes choice. They change their garb for the Oriental dress and it is only after a keen crutiny that the visitor detects a gleam of amusement in the American and bequeued pater. However, many of the graduates be come not only leachers, but priests, and go ou far missions, having a wonderful influence, a special inducement to intend-which greatly exceeds the power of the foreign ing Visitors to the Philippine missionary, due in a measure to the potency of Carnival, we are offering a reduced a liberal infusion-of-quotativos from the Chi-

nèse classics. fare of $60 for passage to Manila and return by our 8.8.“ ZAFIRO" sailing SATURDAY, the 30th Jan. Tickets issued at this reduced rate will be available for return by either the 8.8. "ZAFIRO" leaving Manila on 7th February or the 8.8. RUBI" leaving Manila on 13th February.

Hongkong, 11th Jan., 1999.

&C. &c, &c.

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Great as is the work for the Chinese men, surely greater is the redemption and eman. cipation held out to the Chinese woman bound and shackled in the Far East as she has been from all time; bond woman and slave, held for ransom by the oppressor she calls master.

GARDEN OF THE VIRGINS. Across the road from Nanyang College, Sheng-mou-you convent, foundling and asylum for women, girls and children, rears ita white facade and rambling annex, hidden from the read by thick pepper trees from the depths of whose green foliage the locust whirs and sings through the burning summer months. Behind AND the thick walls it is comparatively cool and here in spacious workrooms from three to four hundred girls and women toil at spinnings weaving, sewing and embroidering.

(CAPITAL PAID OF.........31,150,001)

Loans on Mortgage of House Property, &c Goods received on Storage.. Advances made on Merchandise. Loans made on the Provident System.

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General Managers. Hongkong, toth March, 1908.. -

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Sheng-mou-you signifies in English "Gar dea of the Virgins," so called by the pres ding religious order of the 'Helpers of the Holy Soul These devoted women have given up their lives to the cause of the poor and help less, to the oppressed heathen driven to death and torment in her own land. The frembling creature at bay because of sin, hunger, cruelty, is taken in and sheltered as a sister. Race distinctions, creed, caste, everything is sub. merged in the overwhelming pity and divine late that has renounced all in the passion of {succour. The penitent, the orphan, the for- saken wife, all koock' to find the door swing back at the first-appeal.

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The village of Sicawei is noted for its pover ty and squalour and from its stench-filled alleys misery and disease scad many a victim either to the deep pit or sluggish river, where the unwelcome child-woman is cast, or into a slavery worse than death. From such destinies the Halpers of the Holy' Souls save many.

The refugee is permitted to select her own field, and often sits side by side with the res pectable matron, who comes daily to earn her few "cash" in order that she may assist supporting the family in the hamlet. Often the mailer brings her tot and the child is taken in charge by the day- nurses. Merry are these liby citizens of the Celestial Kingdom, full of the tricks, naughtinesses and endearing ways of the Anglo-Saxon mites, and they love the kind friends that have saved them from the horrors of the show moving river. Some of them mix French with English and throw in a strange laughebie spice of their uafive tongue,

The Chinese woman is docile, because of

the discipline of centuries, no doubt, and sets herself meekly to the appointed task, Silently she works, the inscrutable face with its warm lists and slant ayes turned away from the curious visitor, indifferent to com- ment, divided from the woman of the West by the mystery which enwraps the woman of the East.

scourge, had if it cannot eke out a miserable wago by veading small wares on the street corners, leads a hopeless and broken life. But the sisters have found a vocation for the afflict-

Foster mothers they become to the dis- carded offspring of heinless parents, and there is no more pitiful sight than of these patient, sightless ones following by meads of a cane rapping on the flag floor, the weak wail of a new-bord. Many of the rescued require little ministration, as they sur viva but a few hours after being brought in, either from the pit bottom or the river. The very aged are waited upas by the younger generation, and the affection displayed is some times touching.

The institution is conducted with a practical

insight into the needs of the Oriental character,

complying, as much as is advisable, to customs and modes of native life, is short, the motive of there loly women is not to Americanize the Chinese woman, but to make her a useful and independent member of a society where she has hitherto been held in abject slavery and suprema contempt; to fit her for the permanent place she is to occupy for the future is the light of a new era,

A SUITABLE HUSBAND IS FOUND.

SHOW OPEN

from

18th-JANUARY, 1909,

1

to

27th JANUARY, 1009.

INSPECTION INVITED.

HOURS: Daily 10 am to 4 p.m. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Hongkong, trts January, 1909,

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SANITARY BOARD OFFICE,

Hongkong.

TO THE OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.

TAKE.

DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and TAKE, NOTICE that under No. 5 of the VENTILATION DYE-LAWS (as amended), every Domestic Building or part of such Build. ing within the CENTRAL Division of the City of Victoria, and the WESTERN Division of Kowloon, occupied by members of more European Reservation or id Kowloon, South of Austin Road or those parts of a Domestic Building used as a Shop, Office or Godown, must be CLEANSED and LIMEWASHED THROUGHOUT by the owners during the months of December and January,

Throat and Lung Troubles, Nervous Dys• pepsia, Scrofulous Affections, Thinness, and; Slow Development in the young, it gives quick and certain relief and cure. Dr. G. C. Shannon, of Canada, says : !! I shall continuo ita usa with, I am sure; great advantage to my patients and satisfaction to myself." "Has all the virtues of cod liver oil; none of its faults. You may trust it fully; it cannot disappoint or fail. Onė bottle convinces Sold by all chemists.

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ALEXANDRA CINEMATOGRAPH,

2, Zetland Street.

To-night & Every Night,

FAMILY PROGRAMME,

NO ARTISTES BUT ONLY THE

LATEST

PATHE

FILMS

Are shown as in LONDON and PARIS.

These Films have never been Been in the East.

Programmes to be had at the door. Hours from 9 to 11 p.m. Hongkong, 25th January, 1909.

COLD STORAGE,

THE HONGKONG IGE GUMPÁNY, THE

„LTD,_bara_now 40,000. Cobiz_fast_of

Young girls that came to the foundling asylum as waits in the basket, or laid upon the steps wrapped in papers or tied in dirty straw than one family, except-those--withio-the GOLD STORAGE available at EART. POINT. are sent out into the world with the dignity of wives, as they ars often married in the convent chapel.

For girls reaching, a marriageable age, if they have no preference, a suitable hus. band is found, generally' selected from the college graduates in the institution opposite Their whole future lives are overshadowed by the convent's cross, and if there is a matrimonial shipwreck, returning to the old home, they can always find a safe harbour'in which to anchor. And the good sisters provide them with a dot, for the brids without a dowry would excite little respect in the eyes of her Christianized spouse,

In

order to guard against the dissipation of her fortune the bride-elect is given, not a lump aum, but a piece of jewelry, frequenily jade set lo gold, earrings brooch or combs, so that if her lord and master should attempt to possess him. self of her legacy the theft can be traced to bis undoing and public shame.

If the groom has family connections and is a man of means the wedding procession is a pretentious pageant." The bride in chair to the carried in as ornamental

Stores will be Open at tó, A.M. And 4 #12. dally Sanday excepted, to receive and dallves perishable goods.

G. K, HAXTON, Manager,

Hongkong, 6th January, 1909-

N.B.The word "Throughout" used in this notice means that the Houses should be Lime- washed in respect of all the Walls of each Room, all Cubicle Partitions, Stair Casings GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, and Stair Linings, all Ceilings and the Under- sides of Roofs in Main Buildings, Offices and 'Servants Quarters and inclusive of Verandahs.

The Backyard must have its containing Walls Limewashed up to the level of the first floor.

Carved, Painted or Polished Woodwork in good condition, however, need not be Lime- washed, but must be Cleansed.

The Central Division of the City lies between Gilman Street and Feet Street on the East and Tank Lane and Cleverly Street on the West,

Kowtoon is divided into the Eastern and Western divisions by Robinson Road and a straight line drawn from the North and thereaf through the Yaumati Service Reservoir to the Nonthera Boundary of Kowloon,

A. GIBSON, Secretary,

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Dated this 4th day of January, 1909.

The Government Limewashing‚Contractor is prepared to Cleanse and Limewash Floors at the rate of $1.00 per floor on application residance of her husband and parents-in-being made to the Secretary of the Sanitary law, preceded and followed by the bearers Board. of her trousseau zud mitgift-the same "being, in case of the orphan' maiden, prepared and donated by the convent. Sometimes the home is to be, Shanghai, for the husband is often a merchant seeking a wife from the bevy of the educated in the cloister, and he has many in- ducements to offer in the way of luxury and freedom not accorded the work-worn helpmate | THE of the rural districts. Poor creatures in the interior are treated from blith av no iMiction, for death of a parent and the arrival of a female

child are the saddest events that can happen in

■Chineta family, whose chief desire is to salsa male offspring to make offerlags to the spirits of the parents after the demise of the latter. Until the Helpers of the Holy Souls came, few girls were educated, and the lot of the unfor- tunate in Sicawel was cruel indeed. Drudgery and field labour are the usual allotment of the Average Chinese woman unters 'she is taken and sold, becoming the victim of a more terrible fate.

TOILING FOR WOMEN OF THE WEST. But she is tolling for the women of the West, from 30/s each. Illustrated catalogus of this shackled woman of the East. Over the In many instances the girl graduate chooses latal model Shot Guas, CombinationTM Guns, Hporting Rifles, &c. post free, D. JAMES & de wet falde she comes in the pale dawn, and the vell and becomes the most tender and REYNOLDS, George Brest, Minories, Lon- by suurias is bending over her frame or cutting sympathetic of the religious, possessing, a (ng | doo, K.Q. Kesined

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